Improvement in bottle-covers



E. K. COOLEY.

BOTTLE-COVER.

Patented April 25, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

EARL K. COOLEY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-COVERS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,599, dated April 25, 1876; application filed December 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EARL K. CooLEY, of San Francisco, California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Covers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure. l is a side View of my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section.

My invention relates to a new and improved cover for bottles; and it consists in the new article of manufacture hereinafter fully described.

The material I employ in the construction of my bottle-covers is the large tule-grass of the Pacific coast, which has a thick spongy stalk, very strong, and so large as to be capa ble of being sewed with needles, penetrating or passing through each separate stalk used. To form my new covers. I first cut the large tule-grass stalks into pieces or sections the length of the cover required. These lengths are then placed side by side in a quantity just sufficient to form one cover. These lengths are then secured together by threads passing laterally and centrally, or nearly-so, through each stalk, the stalks being sufficiently large to admit of a suitable needle passing centrally through them. When a thread has been passed through a suflicient number of the stalks to form one cover, the ends of the thread are drawn tightly together and tied, thus forming the cylindrical body of the cover, in which the securing-thread a is entirely hidden and covered by the tule-grass, and is securely protected from wear or injury. One of the ends of the cylinder thus formed is left open, as shown at Fig. 2, while the other end, 0, is tightly compressed into a conical form and secured by a suitable wrapping.

An envelope or wrapper thus made is complete and ready for use by those needing a safe packing for wine or other b0ttleS.o

I am aware that a cover for bottles has been made by holding the gathered ends of rushes in a cup over a former, while a string is tied at a distance therefrom equal to the length of the bottle to be covered. The rushes or straws are then turned back on themselves and tied again; but this is not my invention. I am also aware that mats have been made by laying rushes or straws side by side or in thin layers, clamped and sewed together, through and through, as cloth is sewed. This, however, ditfers very widely from my invention, and therefore I do not claim it.

Having thusdescribed my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, an envelope for fragile ware, made of the spongy stalks of tule grass, secured together by threads passing laterally through each stalk, one end of the envelope being left open while the other is tightly pressed into a cone shape and secured by Wrapping, substantially as herein explained and described.

EARL K. COOLEY.

Witnesses:

PHILIP MAHLER, WM. W. SALIAYCE. 

